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				<h1>Research success by the dozen - part two</h1>
				<h4>Thanks to twelve outstanding professors, over 33 million Swiss francs from the European
					Research Council (ERC) will flow into ETH Zurich. They all receive an Advanced Grant, with
					which the ERC supports projects by top-flight researchers. ETH Life presents the winning
					projects in two parts.</h4>
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				<p>Each of the successful applicants stands to receive up to 2.5 million euros for the
					project submitted in the next five years. After ETH Life presented the first six grantees on
					Wednesday , here are the second six in alphabetical order:</p>
				<span>Understanding the nuclear envelope better</span>
				<p>Kutay’s research focuses on the dynamics of the nuclear envelope. With her ERC project,
					the professor from the Institute of Biochemistry is looking to research hitherto unexplained
					basic aspects of the formation, function and dynamics of the nuclear envelope more effectively.
					One question is as follows: how are proteins used to facilitate the communication between the
					genome and other cell components? Dynamic changes in the cell nucleus are also a prerequisite
					for the mother cell to be able to pass on genetic information to the daughter cells. The
					researcher thus hopes to be able explain the mechanical causes of particular genetic disorders
					that defective proteins trigger in the nuclear envelope.</p>
				<span>Diversity in the soil</span>
				<p>American Dani Or has been a professor of environmental physics at the Institute of
					Terrestrial Ecosystems since 2008. His ERC project is concerned with researching the microbial
					diversity in the soil. Professor Or is looking to clarify how environmental conditions (such as
					the internal organisation of the soil water) preserve the ecological and functional diversity
					in the soil. “The ERC grant gives us the possibility of establishing a team and studying
					complex biophysical interactions in the soil systematically,” explains a delighted Or. The
					first step will be to develop an individual-based model platform to simulate the life of
					microbes in the soil. This “virtual soil microcosm” will enable the systematic research of the
					microbial activity under different environmental conditions and climatic scenarios. The aim of
					the project is the quantitative prediction of the effects of biophysical soil processes on
					water quality, pollutant dynamics in the soil and global biochemical circuits.</p>
				<span>Secrets of algebraic geometry</span>
				<p>Forty-three-year-old Rahul Pandharipande is a professor of mathematics specialising in
					algebraic geometry – a branch of mathematics which, as the name suggests, combines algebra with
					geometry. The field thus occupies a central role in mathematics as there are direct links to
					number theory, representation theory and topology. At the end of the twentieth century,
					fundamental connections between the algebraic geometry of moduli and the path integrals in
					quantum field theory were identified. Today, algebraic geometry also uses insights and
					techniques that are known from mathematics and physics. The moduli of curves, areas and K3
					surfaces are to be examined in the project. The ERC grant will now give the research a major
					boost, Pandharipande is convinced: “Solid funding is crucial for the high quality and
					ultimately the success of a research group.”</p>
				<span>Chromatin as a key element</span>
				<p>“I am especially delighted with the ERC grant because I am retiring at the end of this
					year and this guarantees the continuation of my lab’s work. I myself have got the opportunity
					to conduct more ‘hands-on’ research,” says Timothy Richmond, who has been a professor at the
					Institute of Molecular Biology since 1987 and researches and teaches biophysics. His ERC
					project is devoted to chromatin – a compact complex of nucleic acid and special proteins, the
					material that chromosomes are made of. Chromatin is also the substance that serves as the
					carrier of hereditary epigenetic information through the modification of its components.
					Through its hierarchical structure, chromatin can be transformed into more or less strongly
					condensed forms and is thus a key element in the regulation of processes in the cell nucleus.
					On the one hand, the ERC project should explain the action mechanisms of the chromatin
					remodelling factors more effectively and on the other hand facilitate new insights into the
					chromatin structure. Both are of enormous importance for future developments in the field of
					modern medicine.</p>
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